Readings at the Monastery exceptionally adopt a touring format, making stops at places connected to the history of Teatro São João and to the life and work of its “builders”: architect Marques da Silva and Diogo de Macedo, one of the makers of the sculptures of the façade’s main frieze. This thematic line will be intersected by readings of plays performed on the São João stage, beginning in 1920, when the Companhia do Teatro Nacional Almeida Garrett presented A Castro, by Júlio Dantas, to be read at Centro Português de Fotografia, where Paz dos Reis’ photographs of the fire that consumed the Real Theatro São João can be seen. Our reading of Chekhov’s The Seagull, performed at the TNSJ in 1962 by the Compagnie Sacha Pitoëff, will be held at Fundação Instituto Arquiteto José Marques da Silva. This first itinerant cycle will close at Casa-Museu Teixeira Lopes/Galerias Diogo de Macedo with Ibsen’s Ghosts, which visited us in 1922 as a production of the Compagnia Drammatica Italiana. In June, the month of Readings at the Monastery’s tenth anniversary, we return home with a session dedicated to Contemporary Portuguese Dramaturgy.